THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, 20 October 2007 — A Kerala beachside hotel celebrated the World Food Day last week in a novel way. It prepared a 50-foot sandwich, deemed the largest ever made in the world.
Some 40 employees at Uday Samudra Leisure Beach Hotel in Kovalam worked for 10 hours to make the largest sandwich, surpassing the record set by O’Brien’s Irish Sandwich Bar that made a 42-foot sandwich on April 25, 2003.
The 125-decker “Wonder Loaf” sandwich displayed at Uday Samudra was 50 feet high and 2.5 feet by 2.5 feet across the circumference containing more than 500 kgs of vegetables, 250 kgs of meat and other related ingredients. It cost Rs.200,000 to make the sandwich.
“The revenue out of this will go to the city’s poor,” Raja Gopaal Iyer, the corporate director of UDS, said.
The stuffing of the monster sandwich weighing around 3.5 tons include cucumber, 30 kg; carrot, 100 kg; onions, 200 kg; cabbage, 150 kg; lettuce, 1,500 leaves; butter, 40 kg; mayonnaise, 20 kg; white pepper powder, 15 kg; cheese, 50 kg; tomato, 40 kg; beetroot, 35 kg; gherkins, 10 kg; potato, 35 kg; chicken, 50 kg; bacon, 25 kg; ham, 25 kg; sausage, 25 kg; egg, 1,000; maida, 1,700 kg; sugar, 200 kg; yeast, 84 packets; bread improver, 25 kg; margarine, 30 boxes and salt, 40 kg.
“Officials from the Weights and Measures and the state Health Department have also witnessed the event which was filmed. With these we will submit our claim to the Guinness Book of Records,” Iyer said.
He said the original plan was to finish it in four hours but the heavy monsoon rains forced the staff to knit together an awning over the scaffolding to prevent rain from washing down the product.
“You have beaten the Irish. That’s simply great,” quipped Briton Paul Webster, a retired police officer, on holiday in the beach resort. The hotel had made news when it organized the marriage of two elephants last year.
